Chocolate chip cookies were invented by
accident! Ruth Graves Wakefield, the creator
of the cookie, wanted to make some cookies
for the guests that stayed at her and her
husband’s inn. She wanted to make
Chocolate Butter Drop Do cookies. But she
realized as she started baking that she was
out of baking chocolate! She decided to chop up a chocolate bar instead, believing that the pieces of the chocolate would melt into the cookie dough. It didn’t. The chocolate chunks stayed, giving the world its first taste of chocolate chip cookies!